Fair Trade Judaica (FTJ)

Fair Trade Judaica promotes fair trade as a Jewish value through educating the Jewish community, and expanding the production, distribution, and sale of fair trade Judaica products. We envision a world in which Jewish consumers recognize fair trade as an expression of core Jewish values, seek out fair trade Judaica products, and use their purchasing power to support thriving communities of artisans around the world.

Organic Olive Oil

Organically grown, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil grown in villages in northern Israel, including the western Galilee, Wadi Arra, and the Nazareth area. The present stock was produced from the 2008 olive harvest (November-December).

The only fair-trade olive oil in the TerraOlivo competition in 2011, it won the Prestige Gold Medal, as well as a special award as the Best Israeli Barnea Strain. This is the second time that Sindyana has won this prestigious award. An international team of 30 judges tasted 302 brands of high-quality extra virgin olive oil samples that were sent to the contest by 19 nations, including Italy, Spain, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, the USA and Uruguay. Sindyanna’s was the only fair trade olive oil.

Fair Trade Judaica's website would never have happened without three extraordinary people:Lisa K. Chanoff, whose generous donation made the project possible,Dean MacDonald who captured our essence with his brilliant logo and artistic influence, andAaron Hodge Silver who took our ideas and built a website we can grow into for a long time to come.